Insight Timer welcomes an expansive range of content from our teachers. We're committed to being a platform where teachers from many traditions and disciplines can share their work. Whether you're teaching guided meditations, mindfulness practices, breathwork, yoga, music, talks, podcasts, stories, or science-based teachings, we want your content on Insight Timer.
Our library is grounded in traditions including Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, and other spiritual practices, alongside evidence-based disciplines like psychology, neuroscience, acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT), and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR). All of these modalities support meaningful benefits: improving sleep quality, managing stress, relieving anxiety, fostering gratitude, building self-confidence, and supporting emotional wellbeing more broadly.
Before you start publishing, it's essential to carefully read our Guidelines For Teachers. These guidelines serve as your primary reference for all the content you publish and how you interact with the Insight Timer community.
Content formats on Insight Timer
Audio content
Free tracks
Free Tracks are audio recordings available to all Insight Timer community members included with your free account.
Free tracks can be guided meditations, music tracks, talks, podcasts, stories, or poems — essentially any audio content you want to share. Offering free content builds your audience and helps people discover your teaching. Good audio quality is required for all free tracks to ensure a quality listening experience.
Free tracks generate revenue through two channels: direct donations from listeners who appreciate your work, and a share of revenue from our MemberPlus subscription (for plays of your free tracks by subscribers). To understand how you earn revenue from free tracks and what the revenue model looks like, read our comprehensive guide to teacher revenue. All your free track content must meet the quality standards and specifications outlined in our best practices for content.
What free tracks look like to your audience:
Where your free tracks appear in the app and on our website:
Premium tracks
Premium Tracks are high-quality audio recordings — guided meditations, music, talks, podcasts, or poems — that are available exclusively to our MemberPlus subscribers. Premium tracks unlock an income opportunity for teachers. These tracks require studio-level audio quality to ensure they meet the high standards our subscribers expect. In addition to excellent audio, premium tracks must include carefully selected, high-resolution images that complement your teaching.
MemberPlus subscribers ($59.99 per year or $9.99 per month) get access to all premium content on the platform. Insight Timer allocates a meaningful portion of our subscription revenue directly to teachers based on how many times their premium tracks are played. This means premium tracks represent an excellent income opportunity compared to free tracks. Premium tracks also accept donations from appreciative listeners. For a complete breakdown of how the revenue model works, see our teacher revenue guide.
What premium tracks look like to subscribers:
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Courses
Courses are curated, structured collections of pre-recorded audio lessons centered on a specific topic or theme.
Courses allow you to teach in depth, guiding students through a complete learning journey on meditation, mindfulness, yoga, breathwork, emotional regulation, or other wellness topics. Well-designed courses teach valuable skills, provide practical tools, develop behaviors and insights that support wellbeing — they balance substantial teaching and theory with practical exercises. Courses shouldn't rely solely on guided exercises without substantial teaching content.
Courses are exclusively available to MemberPlus subscribers, making them a meaningful income opportunity for teachers. Publishing courses is also an excellent way to share more of your work and help the Insight Timer community delve deeper into teachings and practices that complement their meditation and mindfulness journey. Courses let you build a complete curriculum that takes students from foundational concepts through advanced practice.
What courses look like to subscribers
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Video content
Live events and yoga classes
On Insight Timer, teachers have the unique opportunity to lead live guided meditations, talks, music performances, yoga classes, breathwork sessions, and other real-time teachings. Live events let you engage with our global community in real-time, using both audio and video to create a deeper sense of connection and presence that recorded content can't quite match.
Live events are free for all Insight Timer community members to join, and listeners can donate to support your work. While live events don't generate direct subscription revenue like premium tracks and courses, they serve as powerful marketing tools for your other content. Many teachers find that attendees at live events often go on to explore their premium tracks and courses at the conclusion of the session or during the week after — making live events an excellent funnel to your premium offerings.
What live events look like to your audience:
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Get started publishing on Insight Timer
Ready to share your teaching? To quickly get up and running as a teacher on our platform, review Insight Timer's essentials for teachers — a concise guide to the key information you need. Then, build your complete teacher profile so community members can learn about you and your work.
If you have questions along the way or need support, our team is here to help. Reach out to us at publishers@insighttimer.com and we'll get you going